Washing-machine



(No Model.)

T. H. CARSON.

- WASHING MACHINE. No. 407,816. Patented July 30, 1889.

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THOMAS H. CARSON, OF EAST SAGINAVV, MICHIGAN.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,816, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed March 1 1889.

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Be it known that I, THOMAS H. CARSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at- East Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-VVashers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes-Washers; and the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement and combination of differentparts, all as hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical central cross-section thereof on line X X in Fig. 1.

The frame consists of two parts vertically adj ustably secured together. The lower part A is suitably constructed to form a bench upon which to support the wash-tub at a suitable height above the floor. The upper part of the frame is provided wit-h uprights B, which slidingly engage in sockets formed in the upwardly-extending side C of the bench, suitable screw-clamps D being secured to the sliding connections to adjustably secure the upper and lower parts of the frame together.

E is a shaft transversely journaled in the upper part of the frame, and provided near one end with an operating crank-handle F and to the other end with a wave cam-wheel G, which engages between the anti-friction rollers H, carried upon the horizontal plate I, which is swiveled upon the stationary bracket J. The shaft E is provided with a large rubbing-roller K, the face of which is corrugated, as shown.

L are two small pressure-rollers vertically yieldingly journaled in hangers M independently of each other, and the shafts of these rollers are provided with rods and springs N, suit bly arranged to crowd the upper rollers Serial No. 301,604. (No model.)

onto the lower roller. The faces of the pressure-rollers are also correspondingly corrugated.

In practice the device, being arranged and constructed as shown and described, is intended to operate as follows: By turning the crank F the engagement of the wave cam- -wheel G between the anti-friction .rollers H causes the shaft E to have simultaneously with its revolving motion a laterally-slidin g motion in its bearing, and this motion is intended to be rapidly recurring and of sufficient amplitude to produce the action of rubbing the clothes which the attendant feeds between the rollers from the tub below. Thus it may be seen that the clothes will be acted on not only by the pressure with which the upper set of rollers press upon the lower roller, but at the same time a vigorous rubbing motion of the clothes will take place between the rollers both on the upper and under side of the same on account of the corrugations of the rollers. The action is similar to that produced in the ordinary operation of washing. By making the parts B vertically adjustable the rollers may be adjusted in suitable proximity to the tub.

hat I claim as my invention is- The combination, with the frame, the pressu re-rollers, and the laterally-vibrating rubbing-roller K, of the wave cam-wheel G on the shaft of the rubbing-roller, the bracket J on the frame, the horizontal plate I, swiveled on said bracket, and the rollers H on said plate engaging the cam wheel, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 22d day of Jannary, 1889.

THOMAS H. CARSON.

Witnesses:

H. L. BLAISDELL, I GEO. CONWAY. 

